Lead- Cloud Platform

Join the UAE’s largest bank and one of the world’s largest and safest financial institutions. Our focus is to create value for our employees, customers, shareholders and communities to grow through differentiation, agility and innovation. We are looking for top talent and your success is our success. Accelerate your growth as you help us reach our goals and advance your career. Be ready to make your mark a top company, in an exciting & dynamic industry. 

Job Purpose

The role will be responsible for managing Data Platform set-up, Application Management, and service delivery. Domain expertise on IT Infrastructure & Delivery, Cloud & System Administration, and Datacentre Operations, and successfully managed multiple projects involving Planning, Implementation and Support.

Experience deploying modern data platforms on cloud and designing architecture, data model and data engineering services.

Key Accountabilities

• Responsible for Managing, creating, modifying, maintaining, supporting infrastructure, and optimizing cost for Data Platform
• Supporting the roadmap for Data Transformation and Innovation vertical, continuously bringing new technologies and methodologies to test in the bank
• Advice on architecture definition of the Modern Data Platform for DAAI
• Working closely with management to understand their business requirements, mapping with technology, and design the solution sometime independently or by collaborating with internal teams and vendors.
• Design and deploy Cloud services to meet the project requirement, baselining and configuration to meet security compliance, and governance requisite of business.
• Administer and monitor cloud resources in company subscription.
• Undertake the monitoring and analysis of latest strategic, technological, and regulatory trends within the organisation and on a global scale.
• Anticipate challenges and risks associated with the management of data as a strategic asset and promotes action that produces optimal outcomes.
• Responsible for Managing, creating, modifying, maintaining, supporting infrastructure, and optimizing cost. In charge of Individual, integrated system components and solutions that enable business functions and IT Services. Balance availability, security, efficiency, and functional requirements to help provide an optimized production service. Identify and manage existing and emerging risks that stem from business activities and ensure these risks are effectively identified and escalated to be measured, monitored, and controlled.

Minimum Qualification

• Candidate must possess at least a Graduate or bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Information Technology, Engineering (Computer/Telecommunication) or equivalent.
• Additional certifications in various scripting language such as spark, python, sql, scala and others
• Additional certifications in various cloud environments
• Experience with Databricks as a Data Platform, either Azure or AWS
• Technical knowledge in application management and various H/W devices

Minimum Experience

• Minimum 10+ years of experience in managing Data Platforms in a financial services organization.
• Typically, 5 or more years of relevant any cloud and Infrastructure management

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